This is the first book to introduce the English-speaking world to “Sino-Christian Studies.” Born from a 1980s academic movement in China exploring Christian thought’s role in western culture, this collection features essays by prominent scholars.
This book shows how Greek thought and Judaism rendered Christ’s work different from that of Socrates. Arguing that Christianity is not Greek at its source, it provides a useful, objective, and all-encompassing overview of the main currents of scholarship.
Stories from across cultures deal with shamanic soul loss—the detachment of the psyche from trauma. This book argues for a new genre, the shamanic story, and its sub-genre of soul-loss tales, analysing examples to support this hypothesis.
How was the perception of time in medieval Europe influenced by religious faith? This book explores the “spiritual temporalities” of the age, showing how Christian faith was malleable and how artists and writers negotiated with their spiritual tradition.
This volume addresses fundamental questions about the interplay between ethics and spirituality. How can love, compassion, and tolerance encounter mistrust, enmity, and violence? And how can spirituality contribute to the newly emerging global ethics?
Spirituality for Youth-Work
This title addresses the lack of studies discussing spirituality in human services and youth work. It offers a coherent vocabulary and narrative from which to construct a more deliberate practice of spiritual care, education and professional identity for youth workers.
Steady Air
Must Irish Catholics condemn modern society, or can they help shape it? Leading professionals explore the case for active, faith-informed engagement in civil life.
Why did Philo of Alexandria avoid the open use of dialectic? Does his interpretation of Abraham’s migration include a hidden political message? This collection of essays investigates these and other questions, exploring the ideological aspects of Philo’s approach to Scripture.
Surprised by Faith
Inspired by C.S. Lewis’s reluctant conversion, this collection of essays explores the quest for truth and meaning. Scholars discuss what conversion means to us as human beings, challenging the reader to think more deeply about the transformation from unbelief to belief.
Tawhidi Epistemology and its Applications
Teaching C. S. Lewis
This practical guide for C.S. Lewis study groups eliminates weeks of research. Covering his novels, Mere Christianity, and The Screwtape Letters, each chapter includes biographical sketches, chapter summaries, discussion themes, and study questions.
Providing research from scholars from Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, this collection of essays explores how the theological sector of education, drawing upon its scriptural heritage, can come to grips with the digital age.
Despite unimaginable technological progress, we feel a profound unease. While philosophers have analyzed technological society, their secular ideas are limited. This book argues that where philosophy ends, a religious discourse is needed to articulate our ultimate concerns.
Ten Gods
This book uncovers the shared origins of Indo-European gods, proposing a pantheon of ten deities who reflect the social organization of their prehistoric society. Analyzing sources like the Edda and Rāmāyaṇa, it reveals Europe’s original culture.
What seems to be evidence can be false, while unfounded accusations are accepted as truth, causing travesties of justice. Using case studies like the OJ Simpson trial, the Iraq War, and the history of anti-Semitism, this book shows how beliefs can be stronger than hard facts.
This study explores the survival of Roman Catholic doctrine and visual imagery in the alchemical treatises composed by members of the Lutheran and Anglican confessions during the Renaissance and Early Modern periods.
The Application of Hudud in Indonesia
Focusing on Aceh, Indonesia, this book examines how Islamic hudud punishments are put into practice. It delves into the complex tensions between national laws, local religious goals, and human rights, exploring how Sharia is adapted within a modern democratic context.
Contrary to the scholarly consensus, John Kimbell demonstrates that the value Luke attributes to the death of Christ has been underestimated. He shows that Luke portrays Jesus’ death as an atoning death that brings about the forgiveness of sins.
This book explores early Christian attitudes toward Jews, pagans, and heretics. Based on the Gospel of John, Jude, and The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs, it explains their negative feelings and offers surprising new results for anyone interested in Christian origins.
Was Abraham deluded? When is faith just self-deception? In a world of doubt, Kierkegaard’s answers to the haunting questions of faith and authenticity are more urgent than ever.